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A meeting of Great Railway guards In Jx>if

... the directors the company with regard to the propoeal fix ton hoon day*! work, and that tun* beyond sixty hour* par week b* paid tor aa overtime, and that the annual increase wage* agreed ihoald take effect. The directon refuted to Mate what they would in. The meeting appointed A wimroUtw diMnaiM a - •4-. - ' ...

Published: Tuesday 09 December 1879
Newspaper: Glasgow Herald
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 77 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

DEATH COLONEL FISHER, C.B. Colonel Arthur A. Fisher, C.8., diad at hi* residenoe in on Sunday night, and waa ..

... yesterday with military honours. The military bodies in attendance were the staff the Highland Light Infantry Militia, the men of the Brilliant training ship, detachment the Inverness Artillery, and number officers. The coffin was placed on gun carriage drawn four grey horses, and aa the procession, which was witnessed by large number* of people, moved slowly along, with the band and pipers ...

Published: Friday 07 November 1879
Newspaper: Glasgow Herald
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 332 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

THE new Irish University Bill, which the O'Conor Don has undertaken to steer through

... AB N - T S - ABERDEEN, THURBSDAY, MAY 22, 1879. UvOUVO*fl AVtUAsl the tide of troubles-- which threatens to over- whelm it, was discussed on the second reading in the r House of Commons yesterday. The proceedings at the outset lacked the interest wbich was expected to animate the debate, and It was not till towards the close of the sitting that members flocked in and im- , parted zest to the ...

Published: Thursday 22 May 1879
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1940 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

THE BRITISH ARMY

... WHON you put yourself in the hands of a bm medical man, an engineer, a lawyer, or any W other specialist, he becomes for the time your master; and you must rest content to be his i obedient servant in more than the conventional R sense. There is reason for the apparent on- 1 reasonableness. Your professional adviser can- H not be held fully responsible unless he be St allowed fall power. Of ...

Published: Thursday 22 May 1879
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1649 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

PARLIAMENT AND FOREIGN POLICY

... p I ;I ,rtnre - and As the Session rolls on, and the foreign and lit an colonial troubles of the country increase instead a the of disappearing, the prospect of a not remote f the dissolution is calculated to raise feelings of Id the Lee ianxiety in all who would wish to see the Eastern L inr question and the African imbroglio disposed of Bank- as quickly as possible. We do not mean that tdhe ...

Published: Saturday 05 April 1879
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1552 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

SCOTCH THRIFT AND INGENUITY

... SCOTCH THRIFT AND INGFNIITY. s niteresting illustration of Scot'ch thrift and in- ohie: kgenuity is at present being afforded by the iron- the - masters of Lanarkshire. In competition with their ordir brethren in England the northern makers of ir stair have always suffered from the inferior quality of the mtis e coal available for smelting purposes, the production have - per furnace, in the ...

Published: Wednesday 16 July 1879
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1394 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

THE WEATHER

... TEE WEATHER. airY LONDONS, Tuesday, 6 P I ,IAMThe wavether during to-day, though still dull ...

Published: Wednesday 16 July 1879
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 969 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

THE EUSTON SQUARE MYSTERY

... THE EUSTON. SQUARE MYSTERY.- . .CLUB TO THE VICTIM. A. Canterbury correspondent, telegraphing- on Saturday, says .-The remains of the female found at to L4 histon Square, are now believed to be thoseof:the, ve9 .body of a maiden lady named Hacke.-.of Carterbury . I who has been 'missing for Bore 18 months LaW alr night a Xdetective, cai down from London, aid brought with him agold watch and ...

Published: Monday 19 May 1879
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1912 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

DINNER AND PRESENTATION TO MESSRS J. & W. MARTIN, ABERDEEN

... DAMER AND PRESENTATION TO ESSRS8 J. & W. MARTIN, ABERDEEN. Last night a number of, gentlemen, entertained the jrtr brothers James and William Martin to dinner Tow the T a b imperial Hotel on ties occasion of preaenting to them caly a tastimonest- from numerous f riends as a token of All respect for th~em, more especially in their connection cron *with thes cattle and meat trade for upwards 'of ...

Published: Saturday 07 June 1879
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 4742 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

ISAAC BUTT

... n ie BY the death of Mr Butt Ireland loses the Be formest of her native politicians-the one man tthrough whom, for a number of years past, she .e has been able to have herself represented in Lo Parliament as the owner of an intelligible. s- policy-the one Irish politician who seemed to )f believe in his country more than he believed in ir himself, and whose love of country rendered is him ...

Published: Tuesday 06 May 1879
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1836 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

HARD DRINKING

... H ARD DRINK1-N. It irciribtis'how the reputation of -the English as a nation of hard drinkers-has lingered abroad long after i it has ceased-to-be deserved-at least hb the waeil-edu- Irated classeis. It is still an article of faith with most foreigners that the'E6glish drink, and the prejudice stubbornly resists the evidence of facts; for in the British colonies all over the Continent ...

Published: Tuesday 06 May 1879
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1204 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: News 

THE BELL FOR ST NICHOLAS CHURCH

... A. *? -? -.-- LA? - ½ -]3id-i, Aikevjun., Master of >lc founder,. Louvauj in regar.d to the beh~j jQ -~coa L-hWiChll to M. Van Aerschldt . ,rom rC een 4th Junei.8S wrt yw time e Sgo, are 'only now beong cj considered. 0 wbllgf A clc is in course of const byte Bland &0 Co., Croydon, and the °Towyn Cuniiltt, resolved to provide ene bell of 3Bet aCUtlbl whic must stiike the hoezrs, and also (and0 ...

Published: Monday 04 August 1879
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 465 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News